On 20 September 2013 16:00, Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@wrar.name> wrote:
> Packaging often takes much longer than a couple of days, especially if the > packager is not experienced. And when the work is published somewhere, but > not yet uploaded, there is no general way to know if it's published and > where. > And how many inexperienced packagers will start by filing an ITP bug? Or indeed by searching for existing ITP bugs? More likely, the bug only gets filed when they've prepared a working package and Lintian is complaining about the lack of a line closing the ITP bug. This is not a problem specific to Debian - people work on all sorts of projects, and post them all over the web. Yes, sometimes work gets duplicated, but the world does not end. For a project like Debian, you can sanely keep a registry of 'stuff people are working on', but if you're going to do that, at least make it easy to use. Thomas
